[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Off-topic] Loss of humour

[Benjamin L.Russell]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:21:32 +0200, dermiste <dermiste at gmail.com>
wrote:

>The sixth quote :
>
>--- Michael Schuerig <schuerig at acm.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson
> > wrote:
> > > The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight,
> > and
> > > you could only master *one* language as your
> > weapon of
> > > choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?
> >
> > Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi
> > seem to be somewhat
> > conservative and CL beautifully captures the
> > anachronistic elegance and
> > power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi
> > generations might choose
> > more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being
> > among the contenders.
>
>http://www.xkcd.com/297/

But you missed the punchline:

> seen on The Pragmatic Programmer's yahoo mailing list:
> 
>  From: Ronald Legere <rjljr2 at yahoo.com>
>  Subject: Re: Jedi Programming (was: [pragprog] Common List or Dylan?)
>  To: pragprog at yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 03:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
>  Reply-To: pragprog at yahoogroups.com
> 
>  No no no, a jedi master must fashion his
>  OWN language.
> 
> <*grin*>
> 
> --- Michael Schuerig <schuerig at acm.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson
> > wrote:
> > > The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight,
> > and
> > > you could only master *one* language as your
> > weapon of
> > > choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?
> >
> > Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi
> > seem to be somewhat
> > conservative and CL beautifully captures the
> > anachronistic elegance and
> > power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi
> > generations might choose
> > more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being
> > among the contenders.

-- Benjamin L. Russell